you see how this leads to infinite regression, right?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @Dick71224996 and
There obviously has to be an original act of authority, but it would have been a rather mundane affair and there's no reason to think it'd be open to subsequent members of the society after its founding.
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Replying to @mr_scientism @Dick71224996 and
why wouldn't there? up until now putting authority to test is still a common thing.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @Dick71224996 and
Because the original act of authority is ordering the others into delegated roles, where it's not available to them.
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Replying to @mr_scientism @cyborg_nomade and
It's completely coherent to oppose a particular person being in a position of authority (based on performance, etc) or to think a particular non-sovereign position should be abolished; it makes no sense to oppose authority as such or to try to abolish sovereign authority.
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Replying to @mr_scientism @Dick71224996 and
in this sense, why would authority be a merely human affair?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @mr_scientism and
Because we have no evidence of non-humans telling humans what to do.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
You realize the production of commodities, legal systems, property norms and market regulations require command hierarchies to function right? Without these processes, how could these 'price signals' become intelligible?
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Replying to @Dick71224996 @cyborg_nomade and
The Scottish Enlightenment explained all of this a lot better than you guys do.
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"Much of the opposition to a system of freedom under general laws arises from the inability to conceive of an effective co-ordination of human activities without deliberate organization by a commanding intelligence." -- Hayek on Neoabsolutismhttps://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/LtrLbrty/bryTSO.html …
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Replying to @mr_scientism @Dick71224996 and
Common Law is the (now very frayed) Anglo tradition. Despots find it confusing.
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